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README
E Pluribus Whom? The Limitations of American Identity in Reducing Racial Conflict
Political Behavior
Peter Luca Versteegen & Stylianos Syropoulos
05/04/2025
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########## INTRODUCTION ########## 
This README provides information on our forthcoming article in Political Behavior, called "E Pluribus Whom? The Limitations of American Identity in Reducing Racial Conflict". The DOI to the Political Behavior Dataverse, including all data and code, is:  https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PQDGER

If you have questions, please read out to the corresponding author, Peter Luca Versteegen, at peter.luca.versteegen@univie.ac.at. Thanks for your interest in this paper. 

########## PRE-REGISTRATIONS ########## 
-"Pre-registration Study 2.pdf" - shows the pre-registration for Study 2 
-"Pre-registration Study 3.pdf" - shows the pre-registration for Study 3
-"Pre-registration Study 4.pdf" - shows the pre-registration for Study 4

- Note that Study 1 was not pre-registered.  

########## STUDY MATERIALS ########## 
"Materials – Study 1.pdf" - shows the materials used in Study 1
"Materials – Study 2.pdf" - shows the materials used in Study 2
"Materials – Study 3.pdf" - shows the materials used in Study 3
"Materials – Study 4.pdf" - shows the materials used in Study 4

########## DATA ########## 
- "Study 1 raw.csv" – raw data for Study 1
- "Study 2 raw.csv" – raw data for Study 2
- "Study 3 raw.csv" – raw data for Study 3
- "Study 4 raw.csv" – raw data for Study 4

########## CODE ########## 
Note: All analyses were conducted in R (Version 2024.12.1+563). We have prepared all code with the intention to make replication and further investigation as straightforward as possible. The relevant packages are being called in the code.
Please let us know if you have questions or comments. 

- "Study 1 final_public.R - code for Study 1
- "Study 2 final_public.R - code for Study 2
- "Study 3 final_public.R - code for Study 3
- "Study 4 final_public.R - code for Study 4
- "Exploration open-text responses, Studies 1 and 4_public" - additional analyses of the open-text responses in Studies 1 and 4, following reviewers' requests. 


